Home Movie: Phal Collection: 011823 (silent)

Description: Description: In the 1940s a pair of apparent businessmen tour mine sites and other business opportunities east and west, starting with desert southwest landscapes and a freight train derailment. This wide-ranging reel covers an epic winter road trip as the men visit rainy coal country in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, followed by locations in atmospheric and autumnal New York City, before some leisure time at Niagara Falls. Their trip winds up in Detroit where they appear to cold-call residents to pitch them on buying new homes. Includes many visits with family or friends along the way and footage of coal miners at work, as well as a brief scene of a yet-unidentified Black man making a public speech at a rally for presidential candidate Harry S Truman. (Silent elements) On note: "Trip to New York/Gaeta Trip to New York / #4" On can: "4" Reuse Statement: For information on reusing Prelinger Archives footage and obtaining written usage agreements, please visit www.prelinger.com. Subjects: 1940s, Cities, Extractive industries, Labor, Road trips, Transportation Tags: trains; bulldozers; cranes; mines; mining operations; dam sites; slag heaps; train wrecks; driving perspectives; adobe architecture; churches; missions; train derailments; accidents; freight train; spilled fruit; spilled tomatoes; response crews; desert southwest; white sand dunes; overalls; "Toll Bridge owned and operated by West Virginia State Road Commission" sign; 7-Up sign; rainy days; eastern city streets; men wear Fedora hats; greetings; welcomes; shaking hands; women and children emerge from door to greet man; coal mining; coal miners; men in suits evaluate mine site; evaluate coal; man chomps cigar; Pennsylvania 1940s men's suits; 1940s cars; Cadillacs; 1948 Cadillac 62; underexposed film; man waves to camera; Coca-Cola sign; cars parked on steep slope; mining towns; dusky light; foggy light; kiln; man in three-piece suit engages kiln; workers wear denim coveralls; workers operate wheelbarrows; slag heap; ore bins; worker emerges from mine shaft riding ore bin; piles of coal; workers wear helmets; PPE; workers feed timber into kilns; smoking kilns; hot slag; conveyor belts; brick work; stone-front homes; men in suits shake hands; making deals; sunny days; 1940s women's dresses; 1940s hair styles; Pennsylvania streecar; miners pose for camera; metal lunch pails; elder man walks toward camera; sign Pennsylvania Turnpike; "Origin and Destination Survey Now Being Taken" sign; Allegheny Mountain sign; Sideling Hill sign; fall color; new highway; driving POV; Tuscarora Mountain sign; General Pulaski Skyway bridge; traffic police; elevated train tracks; Brooklyn Bridge; New York City; W. 58th St. and 5th Ave.; Manhattan landscapes; Manhattan skyline filmed from bridge; Empire State Building; Whirlpool Rapids Bridge; woman poses for camera; freight train crosses Whirlpool Rapids Bridge; gondola; raincoats; waterfalls; observation decks; funiculars; Niagara Falls Incline Railway; Niagara Falls; American Airlines plane; DC-3; tail # NC 15390; 1940s airplanes; sign Chatham West East; sign No Parking Zone; visiting strangers; showing photographs of model homes; selling real estate; Detroit street scenes; Henry Ford Hospital; christenings; babe in arms; Catholic or Episcopal churches; clergy; clerical robes; high angle views of Detroit; Woodward Ave. and Gratiot Ave.; Hudson's sign on building; Guardian building; Detroit street scenes; illuminated signs at dusk; Black public speaker; Black man at podium; African American person speaking at outdoor rally for presidential candidate Harry S Truman; autumn leaves; elders; worn farm buildings; snow; Summit Tavern Highest Point on Lincoln Highway sign; Lincoln Highway; Wyoming; snowy mountain passes; intermountain west; arid west; sage steppe landscape; Film Sponsor: Creator: Phal Family Credits: Distributor: Contributor: Prelinger Archives Source Collection: Phal Collection PC-0096, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive Production Date: 1947; 1948 Release Date: Geographical Location: USA; Niagara Falls; Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; Wyoming; Pennsylvania; West Virginia; Southwest; New Jersey; New York; New York, New York Genre/Form: home movie Language: Rights: Film Format: 8mm film Element: original, reversal Color: color Color Process: Kodachrome Sound or Silent: silent Film Soundtrack Type: Edge Code: plus plus, square triangle Frame Rate: 16 fps Length (feet): 428

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